> Ardour has a fully MVC architecture, with a backend that knows nothing about any of the multiple frontends that can exist for it (GUI, MIDI, OSC/UDP, OSC/WebS

> Ardour has a fully MVC architecture, with a backend that knows nothing about any of the multiple frontends that can exist for it (GUI, MIDI, OSC/UDP, OSC/WebSocket). We do not use RAD tools, there is no generated code. In that case, you know that the call site is never “telling the front end to bring up a dialog box” > I was the 2nd employee at Amazon Well I’m the millionth something employee at Amazon :). But as far as generating a view. I’m thinking of something like the home grown (publicly discussed) tools that AWS has so that when the service team introduced a new API, we have tools that can automatically generate SDKs in all of the supported languages and the CLI. Why couldn’t a custom tool create native views? Hey Again we know for a fact that Adobe has “millions of lines of native Cocoa”. Why is it so hard for you to believe that the front end is hand coded by native developers? Even at one 200 person company I use to work for we had dedicated web, Android, IOS and desktop developers. But even when you aren’t using RAD tools, you are still defining your views some kind of way with XML, config files or something. BTW, I’ve been a continuous hands on ”programmer” (we didn’t call ourselves developers back then) since the mid 80s when I was a hobbyist 65C02.